Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to Charles Barkley calling Kevin Durant a follower | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas react to Charles Barkley calling Kevin Durant a follower | Nightcap

Hey guys it’s your favorite Unk here go ahead and click that subscribe button below so you don’t miss a single episode of night cap that button right here come for the sports stay for the stories Charles Baron spoke about KD saying no disrespect to Kevin Kevin’s a

Follower he’s not a leader he’s not a leader he’s proven that on all his stops KD respond K KD responded let’s take a listen to what he said why do you think people the media think you’re not a good leader or that you’re not a leader I just I’m not as

Charismatic as my peers I don’t have a personality that’s like fit for TV like my peers and a lot of those stories of what we talk about don’t get spoken about in the media and that’s just really what it is it’s like you got to sell what you’re doing as well and I

Haven’t sold it enough you know and I feel like I don’t I mean I don’t I don’t feel like I need to I don’t feel like I want people to call me a leader but I also don’t want people to say I’m not one either you know what I’m saying because they

Don’t see what goes on behind the scenes or what I talk about or my intentions or the relationships that I built with all my my teammates and support staff but when guys like that say that I just got to chalk it up to them just not being aware of what goes

On okay Gil uh I know you’ve been a very very Ardent supporter of Kevin Durant and his moves uh going from OKC to the Golden State gold state to Brooklyn then requesting a trade from Brooklyn ended up in in uh with the Phoenix Sons so what were your thoughts on what Charles

Barkley said and then Kevin Durant’s retort to what Barkley said I was confused you know with Barkley’s comments because you know um Barkley calling someone to follow her with his background and it kind of it’s like like sometimes the older generation forgets who they were when they played so they’re they’re calling

Players something that they were themselves right Charles Barkley resume didn’t scream out leadership either right you know you had Moses Malone over there when you went to the you know Western the EO yeah so you wasn’t leading that team right you wasn’t leading the team when

You did lead the team y’all lost the first round first round didn’t show up for two years then you wanted out of there right you went to the Phoenix Suns who won 50 something games every year before you got there right so they already had leadership

Your first year there you go to the finals you win your MVP because of their record because they were a good team after that what did you do when you was there you went to the finals then what first round second round first round then you hopped your ass over to Houston

Following Drexler trying for the second time cuz that’s where he wanted to go when he wanted to leave Philly he wanted to go to Portland who went to the finals that year right so you didn’t scream leadership either for you to be calling someone this you followed you were a

Follower you never stood your ground to lead something so to call somebody a non-leader when you’re not in a locker room see I can say that from your resume and you might looked at me and say that’s unfair yeah the same thing everybody else is saying when we’re in

That locker room you don’t know what’s who’s leading what all we see is from the court right on your football field right they can say what lway led but there’s probably vocal leaders leaders inside the locker room and that’s how that’s how a team is made right we don’t

Know who’s leading you know just because your name is on a you got the bigger name doesn’t necessarily make you a leader yeah you know yes so you know I was I was like I was sometimes I get disappointed and you know some of the star players when they call people padas

And stuff like that it’s like you were too you were too right you were too so I I get I get a little frustrated when you know some of the older guys do that but here’s here’s here’s look let’s take what Barkley set aside so will help me

Understand this so what am I supposed to do when Kevin Durant went to golden states and Golden State and said I’m not a leader let clay Steph and Draymond lead I’m here to hoop he just said in that very sound B I’m not a leader but I

Don’t want people to say that I’m not a leader okay so it’s like yis right when I remember they asked him a question what did you tell the team you know when y’all got back in locker room he said nothing right they asked him again what’ you say

I didn’t say anything to him right um when you’re coming from one team to another you’re giving them the respect of Kate you know Curry’s the leader whoever the leaders are they’re the leaders I’m just here as a player I’m not coming here stepping in nobody’s toes same

Thing that they happened in Miami when LeBron and Bosch came like Dwayne Wade is the leader like you’re trying to delegate the responsibilities so there’s no fringing right no matter what Kevin Durant um what he was doing on the floor you can see that he was demanding things

That’s why him and Draymond was was was beefing because he is Standing Tall doing what he does but he is a quiet dude he is a quiet dude but I don’t want to be the leader but I don’t want you to say I’m not a leader because you don’t

Know what I’m doing you don’t know that I I I show up early I leave late right I prep talk I do this I I train players I work out with players I wake you know we don’t know everything he does so he’s like

Well I am a leader but I might not be a leader right it’s the confliction of you know just the player’s personality look at it like if Gilbert Reena says man you know what I’m a liar I mean I lie but don’t call me a lie so what am I

Supposed to do with that I mean if you if Gil Arena tell me out of his own mouth he’s a liar but then when I say well Gil lies man I just don’t I’m yeah I lie Shannon yeah of course I lie but I

Don’t want you to say that I lie and I think that’s the confusing part of what people are saying are having with Kevin Durant because we’ve heard him say on numerous occasions that I’m not a leader and then when people say well Kevin Durant’s not a leader he’s a follower he

Gets he’s like yeah I’m not a leader but I don’t want people to say that I’m not a leader I don’t believe leadership has it uh uh uh Larry Bird wasn’t charismatic Larry Bird was basically the the total opposite of Magic Johnson Larry B I mean first of all he had a

Little thin lips so you couldn’t tell if he was smiling or not but magic all mat you saw all 32 of magic teeth and Magic was so Charming he was so charismatic and he to this day he’s still the same way he makes everybody feels that he’s known him his

Entire life or he’s known you your entire life that’s just the way he is but I don’t believe does it help yes yes yes and because I think the thing is had Shaq not had the personality man people have been SK Shack can you imagine somebody

That damn big and he got a frown on his face or he scou people look at Shaq because he was so outgoing because he was so charismatic as a giant teddy bear Kobe could be Charming but you know he was deadly deadly serious because he had Mamba and

We know what a black mamba is it’s one of the few snakes that will bite unprovoked okay Jordan Jordan had a way about it but I just like if Kevin Durant had never said I’m not a leader that would have been for us that would be for conjecture or speculation

Inuendo whether or not he’s a leader because like you said Gil I’m not in there you’ve been in basketball locker room the outside fan base doesn’t know a whole lot about what goes on unless a player from inside the locker room says so but once you reveal that you’re not a

Leader and the problem that you have is when people say that you’re not a leader after you said that I don’t really see what what the quam’s about I can’t say hey bro you know they call you boy Shay don’t call me Shay now but damn you just

Say that’s what they call you and I think I think that’s what I think that’s what’s so confusing but I don’t want Kevin dur Durant to to two things can be true you can be a tremendous teammate you can be a great great teammate and

Still not be a leader so I don’t want you to think just because you’re a great teammate that automatically classifies you as being a leader because I believe two things can be true Gil you can be a leader and be a terrible teammate and you could also be not be a great

Teammate and still not be a leader but I think look it’s just hard to say I just think that that you can’t have it both ways Kev you you can’t say one thing and then when people say what you told them that you’re not get upset when people say

That now I don’t know why Barkley was saying that but also I don’t think uh uh Gil that your resume necessarily says because okay I’m the leader of a team but if we don’t win a championship that means I wasn’t a good leader or I wasn’t

The leader of the team so I don’t I don’t I don’t necessarily think just because you didn’t win a championship uh that doesn’t make you a a great leader because I believe two things can be true you can be a horrible lead you could be a terrible person maybe a terrible

Leader and still win but you can also be a great leader and not win it it all see we have to Define what leadership is um because everybody has their own definition of it right so that that’s one thing too Barkley said you know I’m not I’m not a role model while

Being a role model yes right a it’s a contradiction to what he’s saying because in Washington I was given a franchise I was the leader until Antoine Jameson came and then I said I’m not a leader because my age he’s the vet that was my vet he is

The leader of this team I’m the face of this team right no one was going to outwork me no one was going to out study me no one was going to do any if I said something that’s how it went but I’m not the leader I’m telling you what I am and

What I’m not right so it is a contradiction but you still got to ask that player when you say you’re not a leader in what aspect so we can get some clarity on it you know so we can get a little bit of clarity on when you’re say

You’re you’re not a leader what part of leaders ship are you not delegating to yourself I don’t think the thing I think if you said when if you said that you weren’t a leader and then people like analyst like Barkley and I don’t remember I don’t can’t recall like when

You played who were all the analysts and they said Gil’s not a leader I don’t think in turn you didn’t get then get mad because you said the very thing that they’re saying they’re just re regurgitating what you said Gil said he’s not a leader so I got to take him

At his word that he’s not the leader that Antoine you said Antoine was the leader because he was the veteran on the team and you say well Jame Jameson is is is the leader and so maybe like he was the leader but you were the senior

Official it’s like it’s like having a um an Adjunct professor you know what I’m saying okay they other professors that might do but you have your your word carries a little bit more weight because you had been there long you even though he was the older player you were the tenur player at

Washington yeah I I think to when he came into Golden State because I think those are the only words we’re holding we’re holding his Golden State words right where he’s coming into someone’s City and he’s saying hey hey hey this is don’t look at me I’m just

Here to play the game that’s when he gave away leadership in OKC he was the leader right but I but see that see so Brooklyn right so I think it was just that that moment in time where he’s like this ain’t my team because you know when he came there everybody questioned who

Team is this and I think he just as a player we all do it this is this is team you know mik when Mike Vic went to uh Eagles right and we know who Mike Vic is he’s delegating his respon like hey hey I’m just here trying to fit in y’all

Just I’m not trying to step on nobody toes I did in Orlando hey hey this is jir Nelson’s team this his team I’m not I’m here to help him out right even though I have the bigger name because I don’t want him to feel some type of way

Like yo dude’s coming in here thinking he about to take my spot like no no no I’m coming off the bench I’m gonna be the bench player and I’m G work the second unit so you cool so we can we can we don’t need to have these conversations and have these team talks

So I think that’s what he did at go to state so you know it’s one of those things is it’s one of those conversation you got to have with them one of them you know you just got to ask the right question of you know do you consider

Yourself a leader today when when did you consider yourself a leader when did you delegate it so he can give us the answers instead of us just poking speculating yeah and I think that’s what what Charles is going I think the thing is like Charles is looking at like

Brooklyn like things that that deteriorated but like you said I can’t make a grown man the man don’t want to take the jab Kyrie didn’t want to take didn’t want to take the shot what the hell y’all want me to do y’all want me and Harden the team to hold him down and

Let the doc come give him a shot the man said he’s not taking it we talked to him he said James and I I think he said that they had a conversation Kyrie mind was made up I’m not taking that shot so I don’t really know there’s only so much I

Can lead this ain’t the military I can’t give him a cold red this I don’t have loud and dowy over there to give him a cold red give Willie Santiago or cold Ray they can’t do that and so for me I get what Kevin Duran said I don’t really

Know what else y’all want me to do so in that situation I totally get you could only lead but the people that you’re leading gota want to be led and then Kyrie in that situation had made his mind up he had done his research and

From what he had to do the shot wasn’t for me it’s ever since ever since the Golden State we have questioned his resume and and it’s unfair because we’ve never done it in the past no other player no other players’s resumés been challenged when they move somewhere when they asked to

Be traded none of their resumes been challenged besides the last 15 20 years so it’s easy for people to throw Jabs at their career you know so you know some of these players right now just walk in on eggshells and they don’t know what to

Do so they’re it’s easy for them to just be like I just want to play basketball I just want to hoop you know it’s it’s easier to say that I just want to hoop I don’t want to go back and forth and all hoopla hoopla I agree and I I have a

Problem with that because I think the thing is that sometimes the older players forget that they ask for trades also and they don’t think like like I understand that social media there was no social media then but some of us are old enough to remember of you requesting

A trade some of us remember things that you did that you criticized the very players today for do it and so that’s what look and that’s why I don’t I I’ve never had a problem giving the younger generation is the game different yes rules Chang in football uh has made the

Game the guys are skilled the guys are bigger stronger faster but they’re the rules have been uh put in place to allow the offensive players to produce better numbers uh and the defensive players can produce better numbers because there are more opportunity to sack the quarterback

And to intercept the pass and so and that’s that’s not to say that oh these guys ain’t any good they are but we do have to Takei you know if if they made the basket if they made the basket two inches bigger and guys all of a sudden

Started averaging 40 points we can’t sit here and say like well that had no impact on the guy averaging for two or three guys averaging 40 in of season of course it does and so to act like that certain rules and parameters hadn’t been put in place to make the game I’m not

Saying that it’s easier but it probably is easier because I believe the guys in the NBA are more skilled when you get guys that are more skilled and you put them in more space what the hell do you think is gonna happen yeah is it okay just like in football right is it

Which one is coming first because I don’t think we think about it right even from when football started the harder you hit the bigger you get the rules got to change like oh wait they these guys are getting too big too strong we got to

We got to change this this up a little bit right so it’s the players that’s changing up the rules right so it’s not like oh football these guys are softer no no no no today we can’t have these guys hitting this quarterback because quarterback everybody’s not built like

Cam no right so these guys are bigger stronger faster we have to protect the quarterback a little bit more now because there’s too much power coming at him so now we gota we got to put rules so the rules is really coming because of the talent is getting better so it looks

Like it’s softening up but there has to be rules for it if not you’re gonna have some you got M there were too many concussions and the league was getting sued and and and and and and they saw guys leaving the game and we saw what was happening guys were taking their

Lives at a very young age and so the NFL stepped in and says we got to have some rule changes where you can’t attack the quarterback they’ve tried they’re trying to take the kickoff out of the game but they don’t know how to because it’s still an exciting part of the game it’s

Too impactful for you not to have in the game but if they can find a way to remove it because you think about it now they don’t let the guys get a running start the guys can’t leave until the ball is kicked that also you can’t put

The Twan or the three-man wedge together so they’ve done a lot of things to try to make the game safer but also Gil is that because guys don’t hit during the course of the week you ask a guy to drive 20 miles an hour 40 miles an hour

During the course of the week and then come Sunday go 100 miles an hour something gonna happen there’s you when you you go to NASCAR when they when they go warm-ups they’re going to 180 they don’t go 25 40 50 miles an hour around the track and then all of a sudden come

Sunday when they get on the track and go Daytona or they go Lowe’s Motor Speedway or something and all of a sudden say we’re gonna air it out no you gotta put the car to the test well you got to put your body to the test during the course

Of the week but uh I understand what I understand what what what KD is saying I understand what Charles was saying but I think KD could have dodged a lot of this blowback Gil he not said anything about leadership and just leave everybody to speculate because like once you say what

You say you kind of take the speculation out of It

Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas react to Phoenix Suns All-Star Kevin Durant’s response to Charles Barkley’s criticism that he’s not a leader. They debate if Durant can call himself a leader after switching teams three times.

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